Marc Lalonde
Marc Lalonde PC OC QC ( born July 26, 1929 in L' Ile- Perrot, Quebec ) is a Canadian lawyer and former politician of the Liberal Party.
Life
After schooling Lalonde studied law and graduated from with a Licentiate ( LL.L. ) . A subsequent post-graduate studies, he finished with a Master of Arts (MA) and was then working as a lawyer.
His political career began as a candidate of the Liberal Party when he was first elected in the elections of 30 October 1972 as a member of the House of Commons and in this until July 1984 the constituency represented Outremont.
In November 1972 he was appointed by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau as Minister of National Health and Welfare in the 20th Federal Cabinet and retained this position until September 1977. Besides he was between November 1972 and September 1976 Minister for the amateur sport, from August 1974 to June 1979 Minister with responsibility for the status of women. After an additional use as a minister of state for relations between the federal government and the provinces and territories of Canada from September 1977 to November 1978, in 1979 he first term was to end in June of Trudeau's Minister of Justice and Attorney General.
As Trudeau after the election victory of the Liberal Party in the elections of 18 February 1980 as Prime Minister was able to form the 22 federal cabinet, he was Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources in March 1980. After a cabinet reshuffle took place in September 1980 he was appointed Minister of Finance and Minister retained this office from June to September 1984, in only 79 days in office 23 Federal Government under the chairmanship of Prime Minister John Turner. During this time he was from February 1981 to 1984 and responsible Regional Minister in the Federal Cabinet for Québec.
After retiring from the government and parliament, he worked as a lawyer again. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1989. Because of this ceremony were his many years of service in public affairs in several functions and as Federal Minister, which earned him national and international recognition. In the 1990s, he acted in two cases as an ad hoc judge at the International Court in The Hague.
As on September 8, 1999, the German armor lobbyist Karlheinz Schreiber on bail of 1.2 million Canadian dollars ( 740,000 euros ) was released, this deposit writer wife Barbara, a Mövenpick Manager, Elmar MacKay was a confidant of the former, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Lalonde found.